The Tiny Garden

Stairs, passages, light wells, the tops of fire escapes – no site is too small for a garden, or the illusion of one. This book shows you how you can create a pocket handkerchief of a garden in even the most unpromising of spaces. Equally helpful for beginners and more experienced gardeners faced with an awkward plot, this book covers everything you need to know to make and maintain a tiny garden, showing you how to make the most of what you've got and suggesting designs for a variety of situations. You need not be restricted to a selection of containers: even things you thought beyond your wildest dreams – lawns, water features and kitchen gardens – are all surprisingly achievable. It fills a genuine gap in the market and covers the areas around a house that are frequently ignored, even in books specializing in small gardens.

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

McMorland-Hunter, Jane

Gardening & Landscape Design

Frances Lincoln

A stunningly illustrated tribute to England, featuring poems by the country’s finest writers.  From London's bustling streets to country green, from lords and ladies to brave soldiers lost in battle, this gorgeously illustrated anthology celebrates England and all that it means to be English. A breadth of poetry from Britain's renowned writers—including Chaucer, Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Robert Browning, Hardy, D. H. Lawrence, Blake, Kipling, Emily Brontë, Sylvia Plath, and Roald Dahl—captures a range of visions of the “sceptered isle.”

Favourite Poems of England

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Batsford

From the poems of Wordsworth to those of John Betjeman, this beautifully illustrated collection pays tribute to one of the world’s greatest cities: London.    “Earth hath not anything to show more fair,” said Wordsworth of London in 1802. Hundreds of years later, the same can be still be said of Britain's largest metropolis—and this wonderful anthology celebrates the city. Epic poems that capture London's vast and majestic presence sit alongside Cockney ditties about pie, mash, and jellied eels, along with paeans to the Houses of Parliament, the Blitz spirit, red double-decker buses, and the infamous rainy English summers. Beautiful illustrations—often from iconic Tube posters—of London's famous sights, parks, and people going about their daily lives accompany the verses, making this the perfect gift for any Londoner or visitor to the city.Poets include:  John Donne * Lord Byron * Joanna Baillie * William Blake * Rudyard Kipling * Wilfrid Owen * W.H. Auden * T.S. Eliot * Eleanor Farjeon * A. A. Milne * Spike Milligan * Mary Robinson * Thomas Moore

Favourite Poems of London

A calming collection of nature poems to help you relax and unwind at the end of every day. Now more than ever we're all in need of a daily fix of the natural world, to comfort and distract us from the cares of everyday life. Keep this beautiful book by your bedside and enjoy a dreamy stroll through nature every evening, just before you go to sleep. All the great, time-honoured poets are here - William Wordsworth, John Keats, Emily Dickinson, Robert Bridges - along with some newer and less well known poetic voices. The poems reflect and celebrate the changing seasons: read Emily Bronte on bluebells in spring and Edward Thomas's evocative 'Adlestrop' in summer, then experience golden autumn with Hartley Coleridge and visit John Clare's 'Copse in Winter'. Beautifully illustrated with scenes from each season, this wonderful book deserves a place on your bedside table for years to come.

A Nature Poem for Every Night of the Year

Review\n‘A delightful read to escape into last thing at night’ – Paula McWaters―Country Living\n‘The green-fingered will love this anthology’―Daily Express/Daily Mirror\n‘This thoughtful and inspiring selection offers a fresh perspective on our outdoor space’―Sunday Express\nA mix of fact and fiction, fantasy and experience, the Bedside Companion for Gardeners is a treasure trove of green-fingered inspiration where practical advice blends seamlessly with poetry and prose from intrepid gardeners past and present. Dip in and out of this collection with an entry for every night of the year that draws on writing through the ages and from across the globe. 
The Bedside Companion for Gardeners incorporates practical advice from the 17th-century gardening diarist John Evelyn; inspiring prose from Elizabeth von Arnim and John Milton; astute commentary from Horace Walpole on William Kent and Nancy Mitford on the vulgarity of a Surrey garden. Kipling offers practical advice, while Tennyson waxes lyrical on an Arabian night garden. 
The perfect gift for any gardener, this magical book is an invaluable source of inspiration and guidance to revisit throughout the year.

Bedside Companion for Gardeners: An Anthology Of Garden Writing For Every Night Of The Year

A sumptuous exploration reintroducing the forgotten quince, reviving pears and plums, and including many other edible delights, as well as how to grow them Whether you fantasize about having a whole orchard, just a cherry tree in a pot, or even the perfect apple pie, this beautifully illustrated and thoroughly practical guide bridges the gap between the special place orchards hold in our hearts and the practicalities of growing and cooking orchard fruit. Exploring the traditions of fruit growing and the story of individual fruits in orchards found worldwide, the generous size of this fruit bible is the perfect inspiration for getting out those jam jars or squeezing an apple tree onto the garden or patio. As interest grows in sustainability, the preserving of heritage varieties, and organic produce, this book provides delicious home-grown recipes and general cultivation advice and is a timely celebration of tree fruit and its unique enjoyment.

For the Love of an Orchard: Everybody's guide to growing and cooking orchard fruit

Business & Money

Economics

Pavilion Books

Whether the harvest comes from a yard or a spot on the windowsill, this grower's companion is full of wonderful tomato recipes, including pickling and drying, to make the most of a tomato glut From garden to plate, this wide-ranging guide covers everything there is to know about tomatoes. It discusses the best varieties to plant, including flavorsome plum tomatoes, tiny and sweet cherry tomatoes, and big traditional beefsteak ones, so gardeners can choose the perfect tomato to grow in a garden patch, a greenhouse, or a window box. Information on harvesting and storing helps with the inevitable annual glut, and the book contains a wealth of delicious recipes from around the world, including drying and chutneys to give a taste of sunshine throughout the winter. This warm, comforting, and sometimes surprising guide is the ideal book for gardeners of all skill levels who love to cook what they've grown.

Kitchen Garden Cookbook: Tomatoes

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Cooking by Ingredient

National Trust

Quinces have become an undeservedly forgotten fruit. This book reintroduces them, making them more accessible and providing an inviting range of recipes. The trees do not require much space, and are easy to grow. The fruits are delicious and versatile and the recipes here extend well beyond jellies and jams. From Goat’s Cheese Tart to Quince Chocolates and Liqueurs, there is something for everyone.
The quince has always had a special place among the fruits of Europe. The ancient Greeks called it the "golden apple," the Romans the "honey apple." And it was most likely a quince, not an apple, that Eve plucked from the tree in the Garden of Eden.
This book describes both the cultivation, the history, and the cooking of quinces. There is a sketch of the glorious history of the fruit in cookery of past ages; there are some excellent recipes for savory dishes that depend on the quince for that special flavor, and for all those sweet dishes that bring out the unique qualities of the fruit. We tend to forget that the first marmalades were made from quinces.
Jane McMorland Hunter studied history at Edinburgh University. She has written a number of books including For the Love of an Orchard and two titles in the National Trust Kitchen Garden Cookbook Series.
Sue Dunster studied fine art at Edinburgh University and then started her own silk screen printing business. She has a large organic garden with a small orchard including quince trees she planted over eighteen years ago.

Quinces: Growing & Cooking (The English Kitchen)

Dunster, Sue

Prospect Books

Berries are an important food source and have been revered in literature and history, but we take them for granted. Raspberries are red because Zeus' nursemaid Ida, pricked her finger on the thorns, Mark Twain immortalized huckleberries in his novel of 1884 and Robert Frost and Sylvia Plath, amongst many other poets, wrote on the joys of berry picking.In the kitchen berries are all around performers, enhancing sweet and savory dishes. They can be preserved as jams, jellies, curds, or chutneys and bottled in sugar or alcohol. Cakes, biscuits, and puddings are all better for the addition of a few berries and some dishes, such as Eton Mess, fools, and clafoutis raise the berries to starring roles themselves. This book will help you to grow all kinds of berries. Most importantly, the book contains recipes: over fifty ways to use berries in your kitchen, from Cranberry Roast Ham to Raspberry Brownies and Blueberry Pancakes to Mulberry Gin.Jane McMorland Hunter studied history at Edinburgh University. She has written nine books including Quinces, Growing and Cooking in the Prospect English Kitchen series. She works as a gardener and at Hatchard's bookshop in London, England.Sally Hughes studied literature at Canterbury University, New Zealand. She ran her own café before going on to manage Books for Cooks, the well-known cookbook shop in Notting Hill. She now works at the National Archives at Kew. McMorland and Hughes met while working at Books for Cooks, both sharing an enthusiasm for food and books.

Berries: Growing & Cooking (The English Kitchen)

Hughes, Sally

Nuts -  Growing  and Cooking includes over seventy recipes from a spiced pecan and pumpkin salad, Christmas nut loaf to a walnut cake. Also included re storage and handling tips and ways to make your own nut products such as nut milks and nut butters.Traditionally nut trees are planted for future generations but this book shows how you can have a harvest within a season, even in a small space.Health wise, nuts are not so much a super as a wonder food, easy to store, and one of the most concentrated foods available; a tiny, but delectable package.

Nuts: Growing and Cooking (The English Kitchen)

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